August 6, 2012: Morning
- NASA's rover Curiosity successfully lands on Mars via sky crane and supersonic parachute.
- Curiosity's first transmitted images.
- Photo should anyone doubt that people gathered in Times Square to watch a robot land on Mars.
- Earth leading Mars in total medals won during Olympics.
- Terrific video graphic shows every medalist, ever, in the men’s 100-meter sprint.
- In case you didn't know, Christoph Niemann is live-drawing the Olympics.
- Medal-success predictions based on population growth rates, age, and income.
- Success in Jamaica.
- Wearing red gives athletes a slightly better chance of winning gold.
- What it's like to watch Michael Phelps as a former elite swimmer.
- Men shown throwing rocks with the other hand.
- Backyard gun-making soars in the Philippines during election years, when they're illegal to carry.
- Gawande on what hospitals can learn from restaurant chains: quality control, cost control, innovation.
- Ski masks worn on China beaches.
- Poem for summer vacation: Yeats's "The Lake Isle of Innisfree."
- Gore Vidal's fact-checker reminisces on her 17 years of catching the famed writer's mistakes.